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This is a complete list of PhD graduates from the HPS program and their first job placement. We do our best to follow their later careers, but cannot guarantee that this information is up to date.

(tt) = tenure track
(t) = tenure

Year	Name	Placement	Current (if different)	Advisor(s)	Dissertation Title Click title for abstract
2009	Holly Andersen	Simon Fraser University (tt)		Mitchell	The Causal Structure of Conscious Agency
	Peter Gildenhuys	Lafayette College (tt)		Lennox	A Causal Interpretation of Selection Theory
	Julie Zahle	University of Copenhagen		Machamer, Brandom	Practices, Perception, and Normative States
2007	Zvi Biener	Western Michigan University (tt)		Machamer, McGuire	The Unity and Structure of Knowledge: Subalternation, Demonstration, and the Geometrical Manner in Scholastic-Aristotelianism and Descartes
	Brian Hepburn	University of British Columbia (post-doc)		Machamer	Equilibrium and Explanation in 18th Century Mechanics
	Jackie Sullivan	University of Alabama at Birmingham (tt)		Machamer	Reliability and Validity of Experiment in the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
	Jim Tabery	University of Utah (tt)		Griffiths, Mitchell	Causation in the Nature-Nurture Debate: The Case of Genotype-Environment Interaction
2006	Ingo Brigandt	University of Alberta (post-doc)	University of Alberta (tt)	Griffiths, Gupta	A Theory of Conceptual Advance: Explaining Conceptual Change in Evolutionary, Molecular, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology
	Francesca DiPoppa	Texas Tech University (tt)		Machamer	"God acts through the laws of his nature alone": From the Nihil ex Nihilo axiom to causation as expression in Spinoza's metaphysics.
	Abel Franco	California State University, Northridge (tt)		Machamer, McGuire	Descartes' theory of passions
	Doreen Fraser	Waterloo (tt)		Earman	Haag's theorem and the interpretation of quantum field theories with interactions
	Greg Frost-Arnold	University of Nevada, Las Vegas (tt)	Hobart and William Smith Colleges (tt)	Ruetsche	Carnap, Tarski, and Quine’s Year Together: Logic, Science and Mathematics
	Francis Longworth	Ohio University (tt)	Institute d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, France (post-doc)	Norton	Causation, Counterfactual Dependence and Pluralism
	David Miller	Yale (post-doc)		Machamer, McGuire	Representations of Space in Seventeenth Century Physics
	Christian Wüthrich	UC - San Diego (tt)		Earman	Approaching the Planck Scale from a Generally Relativistic Point of View: A Philosophical Appraisal of Loop Quantum Gravity
2005	Erik Angner	University of Alabama at Birmingham (Philosophy, Economics, tt).		Machamer	Subjective Measures of Well-Being: A philosophical examination
	Megan Delehanty	University of Calgary (tt)		Mitchell	Empiricism and the Epistemic Status of Imaging Technologies
	Alan Love	UC Santa Cruz (tt)	University of Minnesota (tt)	Lennox	Explaining Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty: A Historical and Philosophical Study of Biological Concepts
	Andrea Scarantino	Georgia State University (tt)		Machamer, Griffiths.	Explicating Emotions
2004	Armond Duwell	University of Konstanz	University of Montana (tt)	Norton	Foundations of Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computation Theory.
2003	Gualtiero Piccinini	Washington University in St Louis (post-doc)	University of Missouri at St Louis (tenure-track)	Machamer	Computations and Computers in the Sciences of Mind and Brain
	Uljana Feest	Max Planck Institute for History of Science (post-doc)	Max Planck Institute for History of Science (research scholar)	Machamer	Operationism, Experimentation, and Concept Formation
	Wendy Parker	Congressional Fellow	Ohio University (tt)	Norton	Computer Modeling in Climate Science: Experiment, Explanation, Pluralism
2002	Daniel Steel	Michigan State (tt)	Michigan State (t)	Mitchell	Mechanisms and Interfering Factors: Dealing with Heterogeneity in the Biological and Social Sciences
	Chris Smeenk	Dibner Institute (post-doc) UCLA (tt)	University of Western Ontario (tt)	Earman/Norton	Approaching the Absolute Zero of Time: Theory Development in Early Universe Cosmology
2001	Chris Martin	Indiana, HPS (tt)		Earman/Norton	Gauging Gauge: Remarks on the Conceptual Foundations of Gauge Symmetry
2000	Andrew Backe	Indiana (post-doc)	Program Specialist at the NSF	Salmon	The divided psychology of John Dewey
1999	Benoit Desjardins	Medical Doctor	Director of the Cardiovascular Research Laboratory, University of Michigan	Glymour	On the theoretical limits to reliable causal inference
	Elizabeth Paris	Harvard (lecturer)	Deceased	Krips/Norton	Ringing in the new physics: The politics and technology of electron colliders in the United States, 1956--1972
	Tom Seppalainen	Portland State U (tt)	Portland State U (t)	Machamer	The problematic nature of experiments in color science
1998	Jonathan Bain	U of Maryland (post-doc)	Brooklyn Polytechnic (t)	Earman/Norton	Representations of spacetime: Formalism and ontological commitment
	Carl Craver	U of Maryland (post-doc)	Washington U, St. Louis (t)	Machamer	Neural mechanisms: On the structure, function, and development of theories in neurobiology
	Heather Douglas	U of Puget Sound (tt)	University of Tennesse (tt)	Machamer	The use of science in policy-making: A study of values in dioxin science
	Mark Holowchak	Eastern Michigan	Ohio University	Lennox	The problem of differentiation and the science of dreams in Graeco-Roman antiquity
	David Sandborg	Business Consulting		Manders	Explanation in mathematical practice
	Marta Spranzi-Zuber	University of Paris @ Nanterre (t)	University of Versailles (t)	Machamer	The tradition of Aristotle's 'Topics' and Galileo's 'Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems': Dialectic, dialogue, and the demonstration of the Earth's motion
	Andrea Woody	U of Chicago (post-doc)	U of Washington (t)	Glymour	Early twentieth century theories of chemical bonding: Explanation, representation, and theory development
1997	Rachel Ankeny	U of Pittsburgh (tt)	U of Adelaide (t)	Lennox	The conqueror worm: An historical and philosophical examination of the use of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism
	Jonathan Simon	Max Planck Institute for History of Science (post-doc)	University of Lyon, France (t)	McGuire	The alchemy of identity: Pharmacy and the chemical revolution, 1777-1809
1996	Aristides Arageorgis	Greek Military	Athens College (t)	Earman	Fields, Particles, and Curvature: Foundation and Philosophical Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
	Keith Parsons	U of Houston, Clear Lake (tt)	U of Houston, Clear Lake (t)	Lennox	Wrongheaded science? Rationality, constructivism, and dinosaurs
	Ofer Gal	Ben Gurion University (tt)	U of Sydney (tt)	McGuire	Producing knowledge: Robert Hooke
	David Rudge	Texas A&M	Western Michigan (t)	Lennox	A philosophical analysis of the role of selection experiments in evolutionary biology
1995	Michel Janssen	Boston University (tt)	U of Minnesota (t)	Norton	A Comparison between Lorentz's Aether Theory and Special Relativity in the Light of the Experiments of Trouton and Noble
	Madeline Muntersbjorn	U of Toledo (t)		Manders	Albebraic Reasoning and Representation in Seventeenth Century Mathemacis: Fermat and the Treatise on Quadrature C. 1657
1994	John Culler	Northern Arizona		Earman
1992	Corey Juhl	U of Texas (t)
1991	Chuang Liu	U of Florida (t)		Earman
	Robert Pennock	U of Texas (tt)	Michigan State (t)	Wesley Salmon
	Hazim Murad	U of Malaysia (t)
1989	Kenneth Aizawa	Centenary College (MO) (t)		Earman
	Jose Chiappin	Academic post in Brazil		Schaffner
	Lee Zwanzinger	Peace Corps
1988	Martha Harty-Scheines	CMU (tt)		Machamer
	Richard Scheines	CMU (tt)		Glymour
1987	Sandra Mitchell	OSU (tt)	U of Pitt (t)	Machamer
	Joel Smith	Dean, Academic Information Services, Mira Costa College	Director of Academic Computing, CMU	Glymour
1986	Kevin Kelly	CMU (t)		Glymour
	Tim Maudlin	Rutgers (t)		Glymour
1985	Steve Fuller	Oklahoma (tt)	University of Warwick, England (t)	McGuire
1984	Fred Gifford	Michigan State (t)		Schaffner
	Mary Kathleen Okruhlik	U of Western Ontario (t)		McGuire
1982	James Hoffman	Cal State @ Fullerton		Schaffner
1981	Christopher Burch	Oswego, since left field		McGuire
	Charles Kay	Wofford College (t)		McGuire
	Peter Spirtes	CMU (t)
1980	Spyros Sakellariadis	Business, left field		Machamer
	Warren Schmaus	Illinois Inst. of Technology (t)		Machamer
1978	Martin Curd	Purdue  (t)		Laudan
	Steven Wykstra	Calvin College		Laudan
	John Stron	Jesuit College	Deceased	Laudan
1976	Thomas Cook	Rollins College	Left Field	McGuire
	Fred Sawyer		Left Field	Schaffner
1975	John McEnvoy	U of Cincinnati  (t)		McGuire
1973	Wolfram Swoboda		Deceased	McGuire

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